Iran’s foreign policy toward international organizations has always oscillated between divergence and convergence, depending on the status of the country in question and the statesmen's point of the view. This study aimed to examine the status of international organizations in Iran’s foreign policy. A divergent approach to international organizations was adopted during 1981-1988 and 2005-2013. ...

(This paper was originally presented at the 11th Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Genève, July 1969) under another title and in connection with the Agenda Item : The Second Development Decade — Opportunities and Co-operation for NGO Participation) The next ten years, the period of the United Nations Second D...

This paper is designed as a further building block to arrive at a theory of networking among international governmental organizations. It is inspired by the puzzle that theoryoriented IR research has so far neglected rivalry as a constitutive pattern of relations among international organizations although rich empirical case studies of networking among the Euro-Atlantic security institutions po...

In my presentation I will highlight 5 main IT challenges which I have identified over the years as typical to International Organizations. These challenges are: (i) alignment of business and IT, (ii) innovation in static environments, (iii) the end of the era of these big IT projects, (iv) successful management and delivery of IT projects and (v) the struggle in IT security. My talk will be non...